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Shikadi

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  • What is a niche hobby of yours that you are fascinated by and would like to share with others?

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  • One of my vices is buying things, and I excessively research almost everything I buy. So one stressful day I realized I needed more pencil lead, and ended up researching mechanical pencils for like 5 hours. In that process I kept going through a thought loop of "I rarely even use a pencil, why would I buy a nice one? I guess I could use it for drawing. But I already have drawing pencils. I should probably just get a pen. But then I'd spend another 5 hours shopping for pens and I need to stop wasting time. So I'll just get lead. But pencils are cheap, just buy one"

    Then after I bought a pencil, I got a YouTube recommendation for a video on fountain pens because Google is creepy, and then I watched it. Pretty much downhill from there

  • What is a niche hobby of yours that you are fascinated by and would like to share with others?

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  • Recently got a fountain pen and have been practicing my handwriting with it. Oddly meditative and relaxing

  • If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now

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  • Except most people don't use adblock. I don't even know how they live

  • Firmware.

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  • I think you misunderstood what I was saying about SSDs. SSDs are not considered "Hard Drives" any more, colloquially a hard drive now specifically means platter disks, and therefore SSDs are not hard drives. I very much disagree with it, but that's how language evolved. To me, they are hard drives, because they're still hard storage media, but the general consensus is that all hard drives have disk platters.

    I'm not trying to prove that it was a bad name for 3 1/4" floppies, just that the name came from the casing, not the disk medium, and carried forward colloquially because they weren't very different from their floppy predecessors

  • Firmware.

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  • You're splitting hairs at this point. SSDs used to be a type of hard drive, but now people reserve the term hard drive for platter disks, even though the word came from hard vs. soft storage, which was meant to distinguish between removable and non removable storage.

    Zip discs aren't called floppy despite the inside being the same as a floppy

    If you search online, it's a debated topic, but if you were alive long enough ago there wasn't always this debate. They were floppy because the thing in your hand was floppy, people only debated it when those were no longer commonplace. IBM didn't even call the 3.5 one a floppy, everyone else did

  • 70 House Republicans voted to cut off all US military aid to Ukraine

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  • Russia invaded Georgia? People laughed? Am I under a rock?

    Edit: oh, the country, not the state

  • Firmware.

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  • Nope it came from the housing, it was originally called a diskette. The disk itself isn't really floppy tbh, more bendy. But the old diskettes were floppy af

  • Firmware.

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  • Firmware is easier to say, at a company I worked at we also called FPGAs gateware which was both interesting and convenient

  • Firmware.

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  • It actually was originally a floppy diskette, but eventually shortened to disk because people are lazy

  • What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?

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  • Not that I trust Google, but I did a search and the first result said "A detonation is an explosion where the flame speed is greater than the speed of sound."

    That implies there can also be explosions that are subsonic

    I also found this wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion Deflagration is listed as just that. And cars run on Deflagration, so therefore they run on explosions

  • Firmware.

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  • I'm just telling you where the word comes from. It's like floppy disks, the 3.5mm ones weren't floppy but that's still what we called them because they once were. Firmware used to be something you couldn't easily change. It sits between the hardware and the software. What exactly would you call it if you think the term is bad?

  • What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?

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  • It's a fast controlled burn with forces that could cause much destruction but is instead directed into rotational movement. The difference between an engine knocking and not knocking is pretty small, so I'd argue either both cases are explosions or neither are. Explosion isn't a very scientific word anyway

  • Why aren't we just stealing all of the top content from Reddit and posting it here?

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  • There were a bunch of fake accounts created, and there has been effort to remove them

  • Why aren't we just stealing all of the top content from Reddit and posting it here?

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  • Same

  • What is your go-to Linux distro and why?

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  • Arch has been my go to for almost 10 years now, and it was one of my favorites for 5 years prior. These days I rarely have any issues from updating. I have to use Ubuntu for work and I dread every distribution upgrade. I got lucky and the last one worked on my work laptop, but usually something stupid breaks.

    I run arch on my laptop, my previous laptop, and my server. The install on my server is 7 years old now, and started life with an entirely different CPU brand. I won't say I've never had to do any manual intervention, but the answer has been a Google search away pretty much every time.

    I use Arch BTW

  • DRM removal tool was taken down from github. If you can, please download it from gitlab before its taken down too

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  • Yes

  • 70 House Republicans voted to cut off all US military aid to Ukraine

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  • I actually don't remember that, who was it?

  • 70 House Republicans voted to cut off all US military aid to Ukraine

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  • Well they're always yelling about how liberals are socialist or communist, and Russia was previously socialist and communist. Also they say they don't like government to control things, and the Russian government controls everything. They hate on NPR and call it state sponsored, while all Russian media is state sponsored. So yeah, you would think they wouldn't like Russia, but only if you thought they actually believe the shit they say.

  • Do you use the swipe to type feature on your phone?

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  • I still to this day hate touch only phones and wish I had physical keys again. That being said, I use swipe, and it makes things a lot more tolerable.